Islamic Group Flouts Tax-Exempt Status to Support Obama
The Islamic Circle of North America's website is pushing for Obama's reelection in 2012.
Towards the end of 2007, a website was created by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) that was used to help propagate the group’s extremist activity within the United States.
Recently, it was being used entirely as a political site advocating for the 2012 reelection of President-elect Barack Obama, a blatant violation of ICNA’s status as a tax-exempt organization.
ICNA, an American Islamic establishment tied to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood overseas, has various chapters around the country, one of which is located in Atlanta, Georgia (ICNA-Atlanta). Also known as the ICNA-Southeast division or ICNA-SE, the organization utilizes a number of websites to spread its radical message.
In March 2000, icnase.org was launched. On its homepage was an appeal from then-ICNA national president Mohammad Yunus to ICNA’s followers to give “spiritual and material support for our brothers and sisters being oppressed by Russian forces.” Under the appeal was a link to qoqaz.net (Jihad in Chechnya), a website that was raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda. Soon the ICNA-SE homepage would include links to the official websites of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Taliban.
Icnase.org was taken down in June 2003. It was then replaced by icnase.com in September 2003. Today, the two web addresses lead to the same site, icnase.org; all of the prior links to terrorist organizations have been scrubbed. Keeping in tune with the national organization, the site’s “donate” page is the same as the national site’s donation page.
A third address, icnase.net, was added in October 2007. The following month, ICNA’s national website announced ICNA-SE’s 13th Southern Islamic Convention, titled “Discover Islam: The Way of Life,” taking place November 23-25. Listed as “featured speakers” for the event were a number of prominent Muslim radicals, including: Yunus; current ICNA national president Khurshid Khan; “unindicted co-conspirator” of the first World Trade Center attack Siraj Wahhaj; and former executive director of CAIR-Tampa and unofficial spokesman for Sami Al-Arian, Ahmed Bedier.
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1. shilor:B O has a logo that he used when running, something like a sun raising behind a rainbow. Look at the logo for this group! Can it be?
Jan 1, 2009 - 7:59 am 2. Dave:When organizations with obvious links to terrorism and violent anti-American agenda’s are fervently supporting Obama, we should all start to ask why.
If Obama goes soft on terrorism, he needs to be opposed and defeated.
Jan 1, 2009 - 9:38 am 3. shilor:took some time but was able to get a look at b o
Jan 1, 2009 - 9:50 am 4. John Galt:logo on his campaign plane
http://www.amazon.com/Gemini-Jets-Barack
this seems to of dissappeared from sites
this is a toy site, maybe couldn’t get them to take it down.
two of a feather, yeah!
A lot of the radical Muslims in American are black folk. This is a fact that is never reported by the MSM or for that matter anyone else.
So it is not surprising that the INCA would support Obama for POTUS in 2012.
Many blacks whether Muslim or not are anti-semitic. In fact next to Latinos, blacks have the 2nd highest percentage of antimsemites in America. However, not too many Latinos are Muslim, atleast not today.
Jan 1, 2009 - 12:47 pm 5. KansasGirl:Don’t forget black Muslims HATE whitey.
Jan 1, 2009 - 4:13 pm 6. Fishleg:A group of terrorists supporting a terrorist sympathizer…makes perfect sense to me, why do Oblahblah’s robots ignore it?
Jan 1, 2009 - 4:50 pm 7. Greg:I used to worry that Oabama would be soft on terrorism and maybe even appease it. My fears are receeding, though. I sense that liberals and Democrats are going to be very disappointed with Oabama´s hardline stance on terrorism and Islamic groups that try to use him. Something will happen on his watch, probably sooner rather than later, and I´m betting Oabama will surprise us and take it to them (terrorists and those who harbor them – probably Pakistan) big time, using the Bush Doctrine to do so. It will shock many, but it won´t surprise me. It may even make me want to vote for him in 2012…something I would never otherwise consider.
Jan 2, 2009 - 12:31 pm 8. blogengeezer:Shilor # 3 they took that one down also. They are destroying the evidence as fast as the newest administration comes into POWER! “POWER Just as STRONG as the Military and as well funded”.
Jan 2, 2009 - 7:56 pm 9. Berlet98:A closely-related story:
AND THE BEAT GOES ON: MULTICULTURALISM AND TERRORISM–2009
No one can ever accuse the government of the United States of having an excess of either intelligence or discretion.
The World Trade Center hasn’t even been rebuilt, in fact it’s far from being re-built, yet our State Department in 2008 extended invites to 3400 residents of nations deemed state sponsors of terrorism to come on in!
Out of a total of 50,000, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Sudan have been allotted thousands of what are called “diversity visas” furnished to nations with low immigration numbers so that they can beef up their emigration to America. The program was mandated by our Congress and implemented by our Foggy Bottomites: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41385.
Nowadays, it’s considered un-American to question the value of further diversification of our population despite any number of studies, and common sense, that indicate such programs are counterproductive and serve to undermine our national integrity.
Whether termed diversity or by its companion buzzword, multiculturalism, the idealistic concept and its implementation have been shown to function not as an enhancement of our melting pot of peoples but rather as a divisive construct, the effects of which is a balkanization into enclaves of foreigners who speak a language other than English and continue foreign practices, traditions, and cultures rather than seeking absorption into our general population.
See this analysis, “The Absurdity of Multiculturalism,” by Ralph S Musgrave, author and social commentator, http://ideas.repec.org/e/pmu56.html.
Writing principally for a U.K. audience, he thoroughly debunks the fatuous, and perilous, underpinnings of a theory much in vogue today but which actually serves to divide, not simply to diversify: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41385
We are a nation built on immigration….
(Read the rest of this article @ http://genelalor.com/.)
Jan 3, 2009 - 7:57 am